2 Kings 17:16 Cross References - Rotherham

¹⁶ But they forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made for themselves something molten––two calves, and made a Sacred Stem, and bowed themselves down to all the army of the heavens, and served Baal;

⁴ And he received [the gold] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf,––and they said––These, are thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up, out of the land of Egypt.

⁸ They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, they have made for themselves––a molten calf,––and have bowed themselves down thereto, and have sacrificed thereto, and have said, These, are thy gods, O Israel, who have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁹ or lest thou shouldest lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and see the sun, and the moon, and the stars––all the host of the heavens, and shouldest be seduced, and shouldest bow thyself down to them, and he led to serve them,––the which Yahweh thy God hath assigned unto all the peoples under all the heavens;

²⁸ Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold,––and said unto them––It is, too much for you, to go up to Jerusalem, Lo! thy gods, O Israel, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt;

¹⁵ Therefore will Yahweh smite Israel, as a reed shaketh in water, and will root out Israel, from off this goodly soil, which he gave unto their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River[=Euphrates], ––because they have made their Sacred Stems, provoking Yahweh to anger:

²³ And, they also, built for themselves high places and pillars, and Sacred Stems,––upon every high hill, and under every green tree.

¹³ Moreover also, even Maachah his mother, he removed from being queen, because she had made a monstrous thing to the Sacred Stem,––and Asa cut down her monstrous thing and burned it in the Kidron ravine.

³¹ And it come to pass, as though it had been too light a thing that he should walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and bowed down to him.

³³ And Ahab made the Sacred Stem,––and Ahab did yet more to provoke to anger Yahweh God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

⁵³ Yea he served Baal, and bowed down to him,––and provoked to anger Yahweh, God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

¹⁸ Then Jehu gathered together all the people, and said unto them,––Ahab, served Baal, a little,––Jehu, will serve him, much. ¹⁹ Now, therefore, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests, call ye for me; do not let, a man, be missing; for, a great sacrifice, have I, to Baal, no one that is missing, shall live. But, Jehu, acted, craftily, to the end he might destroy the servants of Baal. ²⁰ And Jehu said––Hallow ye a solemn festival unto Baal. And they made proclamation. ²¹ And Jehu sent throughout all Israel, and all the servants of Baal came in, so that there was not left remaining a man, who had not come in,––and they entered the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was filled, from door to door. ²² Then said he to him who was over the wardrobe chamber, Bring forth vestments for all the servants of Baal. And he brought forth for them the vestments. ²³ Then entered Jehu, with Jehonadab son of Rechab, into the house of Baal,––and he said unto the servants of Baal––Search ye and see, that there be not here, with you, any of the servants of Yahweh, none but the servants of Baal, alone. ²⁴ And, when they entered to offer sacrifices and ascending–offerings, Jehu, set him, outside, eighty men, and said––The man who shall escape, of the men whom I am bringing into your power, his own life, shall be for, his life. ²⁵ And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the ascending–sacrifice, that Jehu said to the runners and to the officers––Enter, smite them, let not, a man, get out. So they smote them, with the edge of the sword,––and the runners and the officers cast them out, and then went as far as the city of the house of Baal, ²⁶ and brought forth the idolatrous pillars that were in the house of Baal, and then burned it; ²⁷ and they brake down the pillars of Baal,––and brake down the house of Baal, and appointed it for a sewer–house––until this day. ²⁸ Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

¹⁸ And all the people of the land entered the house of Baal, and brake it down, his altars and his images, brake they in pieces, utterly, and, Mattan the priest of Baal, they slew before the altars,––and the priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh.

¹⁰ And they set up for themselves pillars and Sacred Stems, upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

³ He again built the high places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed,––and reared altars to Baal, and made a Sacred Stem, as did Ahab, king of Israel, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens, and served them.

¹⁸ Then was kindled a fire in their assembly,––a flame, consumed the lawless ones. ¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb,––and bowed down to a molten image; ²⁰ Thus changed they my glory, for the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

⁹ The fashioners of an image––all of them, are emptiness, And, the things they delight in, cannot profit,––And, their witnesses, they, neither see nor know, That they may be ashamed. ¹⁰ Who, hath fashioned a GOD, Or, an image, hath molten? It cannot profit!

² And shall spread them out––To the sun, and, To the moon, and, To all the host of the heavens, Whom they have loved, And whom they have served, And after whom they have walked, And whom they have sought, And to whom they have bowed themselves down,––They shall not be gathered, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall they be.